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09 October

Dr Keiko Nomura joins Space Intelligence as Senior Analyst

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Space Intelligence is delighted to have Dr Keiko Nomura join the team as a Senior Analyst. Dr Nomura brings to the team a great wealth of experience in remote sensing analytics, and a career history work in the international community. …

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04 May

Rapid forest loss around Medco Papua Hijau mill in Papua, the beginnings of traceability (Papua palm oil production Part 1)

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Deforestation for palm oil production has again received international attention in light of allegations that plantation linked to major household names has been encroaching on protected peatland area. We thought this would be a good opportunity to look at the …

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26 April

Unilever palm oil mill locations and comparisons to forest change

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Earlier this year, Unilever decided to release the locations of all of its mills used for palm oil production. The locations of 1431 mills were disclosed. This is very useful information for scientists as these locations can be compared to …

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12 April

Unilever releases locations of palm oil mills in a bid for supply chain transparency

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In February 2018, Unilever released details about its palm oil suppliers and mills in a bid to makes its supply chain more transparent. In what they call a ‘radical step’, they are one of very few companies to make this …

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04 April

An introduction to active remote sensing for environmental monitoring

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Our visiting scientist, Dr Penny How, is being supported by NERC to lend her expertise to Space Intelligence. Dr How specialises in glaciology, and uses both field and remote sensing data to monitor ice flows in Svalbard. She has written …

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18 March

Detecting past deforestation and woody encroachment in a protected area in Ghana

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A recent paper by Thomas Janssen, a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, uses remote sensing to tell the story of the Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve in Ghana. The paper, co-authored by Space Intelligence’s Murray Collins and Edward Mitchard, …

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26 February

Space Intelligence uses Sentinel-1 satellite data shows ever-expanding illegal gold mining in Peru

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One of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the planet – the rainforests in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru – also contain some of the world’s most easily accessible sources of gold in the deposits left by old …

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19 February

Distinguishing intact forest from degraded forest in Cameroon

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One of the hardest tasks we’re ever asked to do using satellite data is to separate ‘intact’ forest, i.e. forest that is broadly undisturbed, from forest that has been degraded to some degree or another. This is because the forest …

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10 January

Forest loss maps “systematically underestimate deforestation”

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A paper co-authored by Space Intelligence’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Edward Mitchard has shown how large scale forest mapping products can underestimate the level of deforestation occurring. The team, led by Dr David Milodowski of the University of Edinburgh’s School …

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10 January

Space Intelligence scientist use satellites to map world ‘s largest peat deposit, in central Africa

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Space intelligence scientist Dr Edward Mitchard led satellite data analyses to reveal the most extensive peat deposit in the tropics, in central Africa. Dr Mitchard worked with a team of scientists from the Universities of Leeds, University College London, St …

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